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Archaeologists and forensic scientists working with human remains recovered at Historic Jamestowne last summer reported Wednesday that their follow-up studies have turned up the gruesome first physical evidence of the cannibalism that took place during the Starving Time of 1609-10. Analyzing the skull of a 14-year-old English girl found in a refuse pit filled with butchered horse and dog bones, they discovered multiple evidence of sharp cuts and chopping blows aimed at the woman's cranium, cheeks and mandible. The location and number of the marks are consistent with the flesh and brain being removed, most likely for consumption. "This person did not know how to butcher an...

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